Fsf-friends September 2004

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FYI: DD - Technology
by Bharathi S 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Hello All, DD - Telecasting a Technology Channel @ 535MHz. Mostly IIT, IISc Professors Video lectures from different department are going on. All lectures are simple and very useful for the students. But, Instead of showing slides on the screen, most of the time, Speaker's face is on the screen and poor picture quality. Bye :) -- Bharathi S

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Report from Kannur
by swathantra software 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Hello to all. Here is the brief reports on Software Freedom activity at Kannur (*) The Software Freedom day was celebrated on 29th August at Parishat Bhavan Kannur. (*) It was attended by over 40 people. (*) The function was inaugurated by Shri Gangadharan, KSSP ( Kerala Shastra Sahitya Parishath) member who spoke on the freedom matter elaborately. (*) It was followed by 3 hours of technical session. (*) live demo on free software OS & application packages were shown using OpenCd & Knoppix CD. (*) Few CDs of Knoppix & OpenCD were also distributed. (*) There was lively discussions on the subject. (*) More activities are planned Most of the audience were first timers, and not aware of the free software at all. The meeting was very successful and follow up actions are planned which will be conducted soon. The members are much impressed by the concepts of the freedom in using the software without any limits. All of them could become aware of the numerous applications available to use freely. Follow Up actions ----------------- (*)It was decided to form a group and work towards spreading the messages to wider section of the people. As part of the follow up actions, free software awareness programs will be conducted in few schools. (*) It was pointed out that teachers should be told and convinced about freedom of using the applications and distributing it. Though few schools wanted to try GNU/Linux in their schools ,they are reluctant to use it because, the softwares supplied by IT@SCHOOL project works only on windows platforms. One such package is the "softexam" software provided by the Govt. department. Softexam 1.0 prepared by the IT@School project works only on windows based platform.( see the link http://www.teamebiz.com/case_studies_soft_exam.htm). A GNU/Linux version of the software is not yet available to schools. (http://www.keralaeducation.net/local/more05june04.htm). So A GNU/Linux port of the software is an immediate requirement. (*) Next week, we plan to have Free Software seminar plus demo at one school near Kuthuparamba, Kannur. (*) Four sections of Kannur collectrate already migrated to GNU/Linux. This is a major milestone as far as govt department is concerned. Regards Sujeevan. P S2S2, Kannur ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest CDs available from our stock at very affordable prices. Please email for details Debian, Fedora, Mandrake,Gentoo,Slackware,GNU WIN II, OpenCD, KNOPPIX,Buffalo,GNU/HURD,FreeBSD,K12LTSP,HOWTO CD,SOftware packages for Education & Student Projects ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _____________________________________________________________ Linux.Net -->Open Source to everyone Powered by Linare Corporation http://www.linare.com/

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Source GPL, Binary Demo
by H S Rai 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

Is it right as per provision of GPL, to release source code under GPL and binary as nonGPL. This is the case of `Qcad', a 2-D CAD package. Its version 1.xx was GPL for Linux and nonGPL for MS-window. With 2.xx version, they say, source is under GPL and on their web-site demo versions are there for Linux as well as for MS-windows, which terminate after every 10 minutes. Then what sort of GPL is it for source code? -- H.S.Rai http://www.grex.org/~hsrai | Registered Linux User # 223684 http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=223684 : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Monitoring disk usage on your system LOST #410 # cd / # du -S | sort -n > chksize.txt # less chksize.txt ####[bish (at) nde.vsnl.net.in]############################### :

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Secrets of getting your favourite Windows-based games run flawlessly on Linux...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

THAT'S WHAT the subtitle of an article in the latest issue of CHIP (Sept 2004) -- the Indian edition -- promises to its readers. Quote: "A word of caution though, before we find out how to get these games working under Linux. To get fragging in full glory, you will have to first configure your graphics card to use all its 3D features in Linux. 3D and OpenGL are some technologies that these games utilize to the maximum, in order to give the effects that you love so much. Today it is possible to run sophisticated 3D applications on a Linux system. But for many popular cards there are no open-source drivers available featuring appropriate OpenGL support... Fortunately, the leading manufacturers offer their own Linux drivers to be downloaded for free, be they ATI or Nvidia..." Article includes steps to work with Quake II, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004. Other content in this time's CHIP issue related to the FLOSS world of GNU/Linux (not just the kernel!) includes: COVER STORY: Windows vs Linux vs Mac Which OS protects your PC best of all? Some strange, pro-Windows results here. But then, GNU/Linux doesn't advertise, does it? Suse, given CHIP's German link, is tested as the representative of GNU/Linux. ON THE CD: Quake2 Linux binary. NEW FOREIGN BOOKS reprinted in India by Shroff Publishers in Mumbai spdorders(a)shroffpublishers.com * How Linux Works Rs 300 * The Official Gnome 2 Rs 475 * Wicked Cool Shell Scripts Rs 350 * Write Great Code Rs 475 * The Cathedral & The Bazaar Rs 550 (ESR) * Learning PHP5 Rs 300 * Code Hacking: Developers Guide to Network Security Rs 400 * Linux TCP/IP Stack Rs 400 and more Interesting article on non-IE browsers, on Page 90. But, if you go by the boxes, you might end up thinking that Mozilla Firefox works only with Windows XP/2000/98SE/ME and NT4.0! (The fine print below says Mozilla Firefox "provides support forWindows, Linux and Mac".). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha (FN) Near Convent, SALIGAO 403511 GOA India Freelance Journalist Tel: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 fred at bytesforall.org fredericknoronha at vsnl.net http://fn.swiki.net (FN's swiki)

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